PSY 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Proterozoic, Narrative Science, Paleozoic

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Kenneth Campbell

Document Summary

Arrival of single celled eukaryotes - the protists. Recovery, continental break up, flower age, reptiles. Another recovery, vertebrate diversification, age of mammals. Sciences were considered valuable if they provided formulae, numbers, etc. Darwin"s science is the first narrative science to be accepted by the populations. Found in his publications origin of species . The term did not exist prior to 1902. The subject matter of our investigations will be the various forms and manifestations of life, the conditions and laws controlling their existence, and the causes by which this is effected. The science, which occupies itself with these subjects, we shall designate by the name biology, or science of life. Molecular biology and biochemistry, genetics, cell biology, physiology, Developmental biology, morphology, evolution and systemic biology, ecology, Predarwinian and the natural sciences (400 bce - 1800"s) 400 bce - 450 ce: greek and roman ages.